England's 1-0 victory over Ukraine on Tuesday evening attracted a five-minute peak of more than 18 million viewers on ITV1, making it the most-watched match of Euro 2012 so far.

ITV1's full coverage of England's final group game, which secured them a place in the quarter finals against Italy on Sunday, averaged 12.69 million viewers, a 50.3% share, between 7pm and 10pm. The match had a five-minute peak of 18.64 million. Live coverage from 7.45pm averaged 16.1 million viewers, a 57% share.

The audience eclipsed the 14.1 million live match average (full coverage averaged 10.96 million, with a peak of 16.25 million) who watched England's second group game, the 3-2 win over Sweden, on BBC1 last Friday.

ITV1's coverage of England's first group game, the 1-1 draw with France, averaged 9 million viewers and peaked with 15.3 million.

The football scored the highest peak audience of any programme so far this year but in terms of overall audience it still lagged behind the Diamond Jubilee Concert on BBC1, which averaged 14.7 million viewers, a 57.4% share, on Monday 4 June.

But it did beat the 11.88 million audience for the final of ITV1's Britain's Got Talent on 12 May.

Euro 2012 live coverage predictably swept all before it, with BBC1's Casualty watched by just 3.3 million viewers, a 13.4% share, between 7.30pm and 8.30pm, and a repeat of Inspector George Gently managing 2.2 million viewers (8.2%) between 8.30pm and 10pm.

Elsewhere, the final part of BBC2's six-part observational documentary series Great Ormond Street had 1.4 million viewers, a 5.1% share, between 9pm and 10pm, beating Channel 4's The Restoration Man, watched by 1.1 million (3.8%).

Channel 5's Big Brother had 1.4 million viewers (7.4%) between 10pm and 11pm, eclipsing the last part of Channel 4's All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, which had 500,000 viewers, a 2.7% share.

The latest instalment of BBC1's True Love had 2.8 million viewers, an 18.3% share, from 10.35pm for the episode starring Billie Piper.

All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC and some other channels including Sky1) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated. Figures for BBC1, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 generally include ratings for their HD simulcast services, unless otherwise stated

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